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Lowell Liebermann's Concerto for Flute
and Orchestra with the Dallas
Symphony Orchestra.
"I've only been doing recitals with my
older daughter for a few years as her
career is blossoming internationally," says
Zukerman, whose younger daughter,
Natalia, 25, is an artist and singer/song-
writer in California. "I get to do a few
things with Arianna each year, and ,ler
father gets to do a fey ,: things with her
each year. Mostly, she's our there on her
own as an opera singer and recitalist."
The flutist's first husband, Arianna's
father, is famed violinist Pinchas
Zukerman. The instrumentalist's sec-
ond husband is screenwriter/director
David Seltzer ( The Omen).
Zukerman, who has been an arts
correspondent for the CBS program
Sunday Morning since 1980, has served
as artistic director of the Vail Valley
Music Festival in Colorado since 1998.
She has published two novels,
Deceptive Cadence and Tthing the Hear,
but her most satisfying writing experi-
ence has come with Coping With
Prednisone, a project with her sister Dr.
Julie Ingelfinger. It derails Zukerman's
fight against lung disease and the side
effects of the medicine she needed ro
survive. (Zukerman has been disease
free for the past five years.)
"My priority every day is playing the
flute," Zukerman SaVS. "First of. all, it's
a physical thing, but, more than that,
it is a spiritual connection. If I don't
play the flute, I feel very empty. It's a
Yen., demanding instrument, and I
have, with very hard work, achieved a
certain level of playing that I'm very
tenacious about keeping."
Zukerman describes her spiritual con-
nection to Judaism as very private but
also reflected in her work. She has played
the flute in Israel and at the United
Stares Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C., where she has shared
the stage with her daughter.
"I'm a practicing Jew who practices at
home," says the instrumentalist. "I have
[passages] that I like to read, sometimes
on Shabbat. -We [observe] Rosh
Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover and
Chanukah [at home], but I do not
belong to a synagogue. If I'm travc.ng ar
the time of the High Holy Days, I will
go to a synagogue wherever I am so I've
been to disparate places for worship."
Zukerman and her husband, who are
very encouraging about each other's
careers, describe themselves as "geo-
graphically challenged." She is in New
York, while he is based in California.
The couple delayed their marriage for
five years because they believe it would
have been an imposition on their chil-
dren to live as part of a stepfamily.
"I wanted to give my children struc-
ture," says Zukerman, who salutes par-
ents successful with blended families in
one home. "I've encouraged them but
also have ler them know when I am
not pleased. I can't say I was a strict
mother, but I certainly expected many
things from them. I think children like
to be honored by expectations."
Zukerman's approach ro motherhood
gets applause from her oldest daughter.
"Ifs always a pleasure ro make music
with my mother," says Arianna
Zukerman, 27, whose operatic debut
rook place in 1996 at the Chautauqua
Institution. "Programming then
becomes a pleasure also because it's fun
to find things that we both like to do to
showcase both the flute and voice. Nly
mother is incredibly gracious, graceful
and intelligent, and I can only hope that
I have some of those qualities in myself."
In the Zukerman household, both
daughters were introduced to instru-
mental instruction when they were
very small. Their musical parents think
that instrumental instruction expands
the ability ro think on every level.
It also was something we wanted to
do, probably because Nye saw them [prac-
ticing and performing] and it looked like
fun," says the soprano, who studied the-
ater at Brown University before deciding
to go into opera and transferring to
Juilliard for her bachelor's degree.
Arianna Zukerman, who has per-
formed in Israel and will be making
her debut with the Israel Philharmonic
in November, just returned from per-
forming with the Moscow Chamber
Orchestra. Besides accepting perform-
ances with American opera companies
and orchestras, she has appeared with
the Bavarian State Opera in Germany,
the English Symphony Orchestra in
the United Kingdom and the Festival
Internacional de Musica in Spain.
"I'm very pleased to be able to share
Mother's Day making music with my
mother," says the soprano, who is
engaged to New York photographer Peter
Bussiam and is active with the American
Friends of the Israel Philharmonic. "I
hope that a little bit of the closeness that
we share will be evident in the music that
we make and that the closeness will bring
joy to other mothers and daughters sit-
ting in the audience."
Eugenia and Arianna Zukerman
will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday,
May 13, at the Wharton Center for
Performing Arts on the campus of
Michigan Stare University in East
Lansing. 524. (800) 942-7866.
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